St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-02

passed Tile mouse yesterday. Mr.. Barker
opposed it on the plea of extravaganza and
as being unnecessary. There were only
three negative votes however.
The st. Paul real estate board protested
against the passage of the usury law, but
it went through just the same.
The free traffic bill passed the house
last night. 1t has already passed the SEN
ate. This is the HiXson- Donnelly bill. 1t
has been printed in the GLOBE.
HEAVY GRIST.
The Senate Grinds Steadily and
Turns Out n Batch of New Laws.
Both the calendar and general orders
were finished by the senate yesterday with
out any unnecessary talk; indeed. the sen-
ate finished its work at $40 p. m. Some of
the important bills recommended to pass
were: The bill of the judiciary committee
providing for the taxation of interests in
land conveyed by railroad companies;
Swenson's relating to marriage; Smiths
regulating fees of sheriff of Ramsey county;
and of house bills, Donnelly's to protect
passengers from fire upon trains, as
amended by Senator Durant. so as to re-
Quire the use of fire eXtinguishers instead
Of Donnelly'S proposed chemical apparatus;
Alexander's, relating to school district
bonds; Iyerson's, relating to boards of trade;
and Rogers, relating to religious corpora
tons. The bills of general importance
upon the calendar which were passed were:
Senate-Comptou, appropriating $500 to
Company L, at Fergus Falls, to pay for uni
forms, etc, destroyed by fire; Day, publca-
ton of legislative manual; Bowen, defining
liability OF railroad companies to property
owners having property abutting upon rail
pO6 ricrhf nf nh, ot.I
deepening, widening, ETC., of Crane creek
Schefer, preventing competition of products
of prison labor with artisan work; Ward,
regulating live stock insurance companies;
Schetfer, relating to sales and leases of real
property: Goodbue, agents to distribute text
books; Edwards, destruction of burdocks and
mustard: Comstock. salary of assistant at
torney general to be 81, 500 per anuum; Du-
rant natural gas and petroleum companies;
Goodrich, refund to John Osborne money paid
for void university lands; Finance Committee,
| timber culture bounties: Durant, inspection
OF hulls, engines and boilers Of steam vessels,
and registration of captains, pilots and en-
gineers; TruaX, state auditor TO determine
controversies relating to taxation; Hall. to
prevent adulteratiou in dairy products;
Clough, approprating $4,000 to state uni
versity.
House-Estes, prevent adulteration in
dairy products; Colby, appropriating 100000
to repair state capitol building; Dornfeld,
compensation of coroners; Judiciary, blen-
NAL sessions of ninety legislative days;
Knox, compensation of auditors and treas
urerS; Potter, publication of constitutional
amendments: Dunno, gophers and blackbirds;
Sevatson, seed grain loans; Knox, collection
of taxes IN unorganiZed counties; committee,
duties of county auditors; Powers, same;
Gregory, service of process; committee,
superintendent and corps of physicians for
third insane asylum; Flynn, providing for
public schools; Flynn, taxation OF telephone
companies; Emery, salary of adjutant
general. ,.,y6.,..
House local bills-On Senator Woods mo-
ton relating to partition fences in Rice
county; Millar, Henpepin county election
contest expenses; Arneson, Minneapolis to
purchase property for cemetery; Ramsey
delegation clerk of st. Paul municipal court;
Shuler, Hennepin county expenses; McArdle,
establishing justices of the peace in
Minneapolis; Cloutier, Hennepin county
roads; Donnelly, Dakota county road tax
levy; Knox, Crow Wing county justices of
the peace; Lum, cattle running at large in
Oak Lawn: Anderson, examination of teach
ers in Goodhue county; Latham, Delano in
corporation Hendrickson, clerk of district
court; Williams, changing boundary of school
district in Farbault county; Sevatson, indie
pendent school district in Jackson county :;
Flynn, Independent School District No. g.;
Baker, St. Vincent ferry; Knox, Eleventh
judicial district; Flynn, Little Falls water
power: Baker, compensation of Polk county
treasurer: Baker, Red Lake Falls village;
Flynn, town of Pike Creek bonds; Flynn, town
of Belle Prairie bonds; Flynn, town of Little
Falls bonds; Donnelly, Hastings common
schools: Fathers, Olmsted county register of
deeds; Ramsey delegation, designating county
commissioners; SeyatSon, Jackson county
bonds: Hurd, Clearwater and Clear Lake
bonds; Smith, village of Pine City; Shave,
R. E. Davis to construct mill-dam; Wilson,
Alexandria charter; Wollan, Pope county ap-
preparation for county agricultural society.
A bill was introduced by Senator Ward
and passed under suspension of rules au-
| thoriZing Waseca county to purchase land
for the Waseca County Agricultural society.
Senator Keller had the st. Cloud extern
sion of limits bill referred to him for amend
ment He reported it with all amendment
to strike out section Switch section pro-
posed to exempt the taxpayers of East ST..
Cloud from paying taxes for the proposed
| bridge. Senator Eaton kicked against the
| amendment. Senator Keller fought like
wild fire and said it was the unanimous de-
sire of everybody to have the section
stricken out, and delegation after delega-
ton had been after him to have. the bill
amended accordingly. He did his best, but
| a motion was carried referring the bill to
Senators Keller and Eaton.
Senator Ward gave the bill of Senator
Swenson, which proposed to authorize the
state to donate the state experimental fruit
farm as site for a state soldiers home, a
big black eye, the result being that it was
lost by vote of to %. Senator Ward
said: capt. Shuler's bill had already been
passed, which authorized the appointment
| of a commission to locate the soldiers home,
and now gentleman from Minneapolis
comes along with bill to locate the home
at Minneapolis. There are other places in
the country besides Minneapolis and St.
| Paul, thank God"
Senator Goodrich's prohibitory constitu-
tional amendment received vote of IS to
10. The author of the bill will have the
bill recunsidered.
Both the general appropriation bills of
the house finance committee which were
on general orders, were laid over to be
| printed. The appropriation for the relief
of the Marshall and other counties hail suf-
ferers, and to reimburse st. Paul and Min
neapOls for aid extended, was also laid
over. Senator Ward opposed the bill on
the ground that it was like giving out
charity and then asking for reimbursement.
Senators. Keller and Comstock spoke in
favor of the BILL
| Delayed Another Dny.
| The senate judiciary committee reported
back the Compton Ieapportionment bill
| 1yithnrt recommendations Sapotnr Cop,,,